cervelat
/ˈsəːvəlɑː
/ /ˈsəːvəlat/noun [mass noun]
A kind of smoked pork sausage.She doesn't like sausages so much except for homemade and cervelat and sometimes a full beef dog from Abeles and Heymann and mostly I guess air-dried cervelat....
- The cervelat is uncooked, but preserved by curing, drying and smoking.
- Gothaer Cervelat is a cervelat of German origin; made only of very lean pork, finely chopped and cured.
Origin
Early 17th century: from obsolete French, earlier form of cervelas, from Italian cervellata.